Match the information from the autobiography excerpts to its author. Column A

1 Shares about his own childhood through the guise of describing the life of an anonymous slave child

2 "History is full of the errors of states and princes.

3"The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

4 Joined other statesmen to represent the Colonies in a conference with the Iriquois Indian

5 tribes. Uses a formal writing style with officious language

6. Begins the narrative with a personal story about his childhood

7. Uses a compare/contrast strategy to explain the differences between a young slave's life and
that of the slaveholder's children

8"Children have their sorrows as much as men and women, and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them."

Column B

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. Frederick Douglass